The team, which currently ranks second in the Central American and Caribbean region, is looking forward to performing well in Vancouver and to qualify for the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships to be held in Birmingham, England, in 2010.

The wheelchair basketball players heading to Vancouver include Captain Bryan Ingram, leading scorers Tanto and Toto Campbell, Kevon Reid, Dennis Cunningham, Alphanso Cunningham, Kirt Walcott and Joel Brown, as well as newcomers Jenard Williamson, Sheldon Cox and Wayne Whyte.

The contingent will also include officials Pamela Chin (manager), Keith Henry (equipment manager), Ajay Kapu (physiotherapist) and Elfraito Remike (coach and newly certified International Wheelchair Basketball Federation referee).

In November last year, Jamaica's wheelchair basketball team placed second in the Caribbean Wheel-chair Basketball Tournament in El Salvador, where they went down against Mexico in the finals.

The group is expected to depart from Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay at 1 p.m. tomorrow and is booked to return to MoBay Sunday, August 30, then transported to Kingston by Jessa Tours, one of the team's sponsors.

Other sponsors are GraceKennedy ($50,000), FirstCaribbean ($20,000), Jamaica Broilers ($20,000), Red Stripe ($100,000), IBM ($10,000), Citibank ($20,000), NCB ($100,000), Supreme Ventures Limited ($100,000), DHL (which assisted with the importation of the wheelchairs for the competition), VMBS ($100,000 to cover the cost of track suits), Sun Island (which provided training shirts) and the Sports Development Foundation ($1 million).